Hacker News: jckahn

New comment by jckahn in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

jckahn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:19:37 +0000

This is a good analogy. Also I hate cooking; it feels like a chore and waste of time. Given the means, I prefer to have someone else do it for me so I can focus on more interesting things.

New comment by jckahn in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

jckahn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:32:46 +0000

Oh hey it's the Chonkasaurus guy!

https://wgntv.com/video/giant-snapping-turtle-nicknamed-chon...

New comment by jckahn in "Got a hot date? A secondhand SK Hynix jacket is perfect as bonuses raise cachet"

jckahn — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:34:49 +0000

> Maybe I'll just get a cat

You could do worse.

New comment by jckahn in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

jckahn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:39:54 +0000

You joke, but this is _exactly_ what I want Claude to be doing.

New comment by jckahn in "Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution"

jckahn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:59:40 +0000

Don't worry, you'll be able to rent your next computer: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-upgrade-launche...

New comment by jckahn in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

jckahn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:06:15 +0000

> For someone who has been born disabled, the conversation should be moved to the people who brought them to life and are responsible for their survival.

Please explain exactly what you are suggesting or advocating for here.

New comment by jckahn in "LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models"

jckahn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:58:53 +0000

And also enshittify

New comment by jckahn in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

jckahn — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:08:28 +0000

Ignore the haters. What you've done is incredible!

New comment by jckahn in "Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17"

jckahn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:32:47 +0000

Why?

New comment by jckahn in "Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8"

jckahn — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:04:32 +0000

That's not the option most are going to take.

New comment by jckahn in "It's death"

jckahn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:27:14 +0000

YOLO

New comment by jckahn in "Claude Fable 5"

jckahn — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:09:02 +0000

Cannot wait for the pelican for this one

New comment by jckahn in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jckahn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:35:04 +0000

That's not been my experience. Most professional software is just a CRUD app in one form or another.

New comment by jckahn in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

jckahn — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:23:34 +0000

Linter linters, obviously

New comment by jckahn in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

jckahn — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:34:57 +0000

This is awful. I got so much use out of it!

New comment by jckahn in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

jckahn — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:48:46 +0000

Ok but you do want the people building your home to be experts at building homes, yes?

New comment by jckahn in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

jckahn — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:11:16 +0000

Worst way to grow the company by 11 people

New comment by jckahn in "Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8"

jckahn — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:59:18 +0000

I assume Meta has backdoor access.

New comment by jckahn in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

jckahn — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:04:50 +0000

I'll be in my home for longer than the recession lasts. Seems a little silly to sell it and walk away from my hard-earned lifestyle (which I quite enjoy) to save some money for just a few years.

New comment by jckahn in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

jckahn — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:32:43 +0000

I'd rather be poor in the city than rich and bored outside of it.